Is the Hamburger Menu a Problem?

For web and UI/UX designers, this icon is all too familiar: three horizontal lines that stand for a…

Creating and Sending Reusable Emails with React

A couple weeks ago, I was tasked with coding emails. Oh, great… emails. I didn’t want to spend the next couple weeks coding tables for hours every day. There had to be a better way.

Kubernetes, 1 year in production

It’s been a little more than a year since we’ve moved all of the core infrastructure behind Mic.com and related services to Docker and Kubernetes. We thought we’d share some of our experiences and lessons learned.

ETL with standalone Spark containers for ingesting small files

At Mic, we have high volumes of data streaming into our ingestion pipeline from various sources. Much of our data is generated from user interactions on the website (article views, video plays, etc.), but some come from…

A Conversation with Norm Cox, Creator of the Hamburger Menu

Introduction from Norm Cox

How Mic makes AMP stories

Mic has partnered with Google to produce AMP stories, a new kind of webpage powered by AMP. AMP stories provide a…

A Conversation with Mark Simonson

I sat down with Mark Simonson, the creator of Proxima Nova, for a…

Why Miles Davis Was The Ultimate Product Leader

Distro.Mic: An Open Source Service for Creating Instant Articles, Google AMP and Apple News Articles